I was wary of this book because I had read several reviews that complained about the narrator. I was extremely pleased, however, that I chose to listen! This book was gripping and sucked me in right away. I enjoyed the Australian narrator -- it helped bring the story to life. Best book I've read in a while.

I enjoyed the story once it got going. It was a bit slow at first so you have to give it a bit of time to get moving. However, the reader was very hard to understand. He has a pleasant enough voice just he trails off and speaks so low that it's really hard to catch. Therefore I did miss import info at times and felt like I was playing catch up in figuring out what was happening. If I turned the volume up to hear the quiet parts the rest were cringe worthy loud. So I honestly only understood about 2/3 of the words and entire sentences were lost in the mumble. So if you have trouble in any way with hearing, skip this one and read it in print. My stars are given low for performance due to difficulty hearing it and one less star for story as it takes awhile to get interesting and I had to go back to it three times to get into it.

I am having a really hard time getting through this book because I cannot understand the narrator. It is not the accent as I have listen to books with narrators that had accents such as Liane Moriarty's books that are narrated by Caroline Lee. Maybe it is the flat tone. I have heard this is such a great book, but unfortunately cannot finish it by listening.

What a complex and gripping story that caused me, so many times to question what I would have done. And the author could have wrapped up the story in a nice near bow, but didn't let us readers off the hook.

I listened to the audio version and found the volume a problem. Sometimes the narrator spoke too softly. But I guess I got used to it.

I did love this book and the narrator (once I caught up with the accent). I admit this is one I switched to paper copy for the 2nd half simply because I wanted to stop and think about so many of the beautiful thoughts and phrases used by the writer. In audio, these whizzed by me too quickly. It's a savoring sort of read.